The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-14
NERVE BRACERS.
Barkeepers' Various Remedies for the
Effects of too Much Strong Drink.


From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Whats good thing to sober up oni" in
! quired man of barkeeper in fashion
able saloon last night. The chemist looked
at the questioner moment and replied:
| ''Oh, you haven't been budging very hard
| guess a whisky cocktail would about be
the thing for you. Just you go and sit
down and sip it gradually, and you'll feel
| BETTER
| What else do you recommend" asked a
| reporter who was within hearing.
"A phosphate punch would not be bad.
! That's new thing that somehow doesn't
seem to mix well. It's good for the nerves,
! ! am told, but the effect is not immediate.
Everybody drinks acid phosphate now, but
mostly in soda water"
How is soda water as a tonic after a
| spree!n
'Well, don't recommend it. It's apt to
cut mans stomach up considerably.
Brandy and soda are better"
Its the brandy that does the good there"
chimed in q customer who was taking a
good deal Of interest in the conversation.
"A little brandy when a man is getting
! Strengthened up is one Of the anchors to the
| soul. just the least swallow will do man
| good after hard carouse, when a teaspoon
full more would make him deathly sick
again. mans got to have some liquor
when he's getting over spree. | tell you
| there's been times with me when | thought
that if l stopped short without easing my
self down with a drink of whisky | should
surely die. My old standby, though, when
l am Strengthening up, is milk toast,
screeching hot, with plenty of red pepper
in it, Not so much, OF course, as to make it
! disagreeable, as the stomach wouldn't stand
it, but enough to make it pretty warm
dose"
Hot beef tea is good, too, meekly put in
the barkeeper.
Eyes. but a rare beefsteak Just off the
bars of the broiler is worth quarts of it. 1t
! mustn't be fried, because it can't be so easily
digested. Hot milk is a boss thing to take,
if it has just dash Of brandy in it"
''How's valerian? That's what they give
at the police station to sufferers with the
jimjams."
II wouldn't touch it, If l were to take
the stuff | believe it would kill me- It's
good for the nerves, but it's bad for the
stomach. If man isn't too far gone, so
that his stomach is weak, | guess it will do
but when a man has been going it for ten
or twelve years he wants to let valerian
| alone. I've known it to kill people But
then again men differ If whisky affects
| mans stomach, then let him give valerian
the go by; but if it goes for any other part
| of the system, he may take it without hurt
ing himself any. / have known people to
sober up after a wine drunk by drinking
little beer, but if | were to try it believe
it would keel me over. Red pepper and
milk toast is my standby"
Yes. but what are you going to do when
your stomach is so feverish and sore that it
won't retain the milk tOaStW put in another
| soak, who had been listening for some time
with good deal of interest
The great thing l use, p" continued the last
speaker, when | am getting well is ice,
broken ice. My stomach is so feeble and SO
| hot and infamed after a hard debauch that
L can't get anything to stay on it but
whisky, but that means another big drunk
| on top of the one I'm already trying to re-
| cover from. | chew up ice until the pieces
are about as big as peas, and then swallow
them. They cool the fever in my stomach,
and after a little while l can man
age to hold down a little beef tea
say tablespoonful. | suppose I have
eaten from four to six pounds of ice before
| could experience relief enough to enable my
| stomach to hold even a tablespoonful of beef
| tea. Why, | remember after l had been
| on spree for about four weeks once, for
| thirty-six hours | was fiat down-couldn't
| move. Then I'd be so nervous after a spree
that / couldn't hold liquor glass that was
| half full without spilling it, my hand would
shake So And sleep! I'd give farm if l
could only sleep at time like that. l have
| taken hypodermic injections of morphine
and sulphate of morphia pills until lately
| they have only the effect OF stimulating the
nerves, instead of quoting them. Hydrate
of choral is what have used of late to get
sleep"
''What do l think of waterman? 1t makes
a man feel bad in the head and weakens
| him considerably, but it steadieS the nerves.
| Yes, I've used it and bromide of potassium,
too. That's good. I'm trying to quit
drinking now and I'm getting along first
| rate. feel a little more nervous than |
did when was drinking hard, but I'm
| stouter man."
The statement seemed strangely inconglu-
| GUS in saloon. Here was a man who was
| talking of swearing off and at the same
| time meditatively pouring himself out a
| good, stiff drink Of whisky He explained:
! Two years ago | used TO drink about forty
glasses Of whisky per day; now try to get
! along on three or FOUR
"Why don't you leave il off altogether?'
| Eyes, why don't /! Because l haven't got
| the strength to do it. | believe the thirst
! for liquor is Il disease. l don't banker after
| its taste to-day bit more than did when
boy of 10 took my first swig from the
| stone jug in which | carried whisky to the
| harvesters."
"Will only those people who have that
| kind of taste become drunkardsi'
Nobody can tell. Sometimes a man will
reach maturity before he ever takes liquor.
and then the passion will grow upon him, so
that he will die a drunkard j knew the
father of a professor in college, not 200
miles from here, who had lived a life of the
sttictest sobriety and temperance up to his
Goth year He was living with his son, and,
being somewhat feeble, was advised by
some one to use little wine for his
'stomach's sake Tho passion seemed
to seize him from that day until,
a miserable, dsgraced, drunken wretch,
he died of delirium tremens. But, here,
/ am not going TO preach a temperance SER
mon. Let me give You pointer. You see
man with whisky blossoms on his nose,
with Redeemed face, or all bloated up, and
you say to yourself: There is man whom
whisky is killing That's where YOU make
the mistake. The man whom whisky kills
the quickest and makes 10 suffer the most.
is the man whose stomach is the point of at
tack. It's bound to strike for the weakest
part, and the man whose stomach is the
weakest part has TO suffer.